Simon Fraser University

Jamie Mulholland

Senior Lecturer

PhD Mathematics · University of British Columbia · 2006

tel  778.782.7655
fax  778.782.4947
j_mulholland@sfu.ca
office  SC K10541

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Interests

I'm interested in mathematics education and promoting mathematics to students at all age levels: elementary school through college/university.

Mathematics is a very beautiful subject, and highlights some of the greatest achievements in human thought, unfortunately not everyone hangs on long enough to reach the stage where they get to encounter this beauty. Some of the nicest mathematics will not be seen until a student reaches their first, second or even third year university level mathematics course. This is not to say that a high level of sophistocation is required to understand or appreciate the ideas, in fact, sometimes quite the opposite is true. Some of the ideas can be presented to students as early as elementary school. Boosting a community appreciation towards mathematics is something that interests me a great deal.

My background is in pure mathematics; in particular abstract algebra, algebraic topology, combinatorial group theory, and number theory.

I'm always happy to meet with students who wish to talk about mathematics at any level, so please feel free to contact me.